Doncaster coronavirus death toll rises again as two more fatalities reported

It means 227 people have now died in the Doncaster area with COVID-19.

The newly released NHS England figures are the first increase in the local death toll in several days.

The figures are deaths within the Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust which includes Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Mexborough’s Montagu Hospital and Bassetlaw Hospital at Worksop.

In Sheffield there have been 288 deaths, an increase of two, 147 in Barnsley and 195 in Rotherham, which are both the same as yesterday.

The UK death toll currently stands at 44,236.

Earlier today, new figures revealed that deaths in Doncaster remained far higher than normal levels in May following a spike the previous month.

Centre for Cities statistics show that the number of coronavirus cases in Doncaster has been rising in recent weeks, with 21 cases per 100,000 population and a cumulative total of 628 per 100,000.

Those figures put Doncaster in the top ten of places across the country were coronavirus cases have been rising, behind Leicester, Bradford, Barnsley, Huddersfield, Blackburn and Sheffield and Leicester, which topped the table and which has gone into a localised lockdown.

The new figures come after Doncaster health chiefs rubbished claims of an impending local lockdown saying the borough is ‘nowhere near’ that situation

Director of public health Dr Rupert Suckling, said the most recent available data published every week shows the infection rate is 21.6 per 100,000, the figure quoted by Centre for Cities.